Re: [loganalysis] Re: Central syslog server best practices?

From: Robin Edgar, Tripany (arnoat_private)
Date: Wed Aug 15 2001 - 01:39:20 PDT

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    >
    > >A couple years ago I did some testing of Massive Syslog Servers
    > >and discovered that basically syslog is a piece of junk, design-wise.
    >
    > Bah!  syslog is performing exactly as it was designed.
    > - It is lightweight
    > - Anyone can use it
    > - Nothing really bogs it down
    > - It has loose rules (very liberal in what it accepts)
    > Even with all of that, it still passes a lot of event notification
    > messages.  Because of these, it is very widely accepted and almost
    > ubiquitously deployed.
    >
    
    Unfortunately, sending 1000 emails over a wide pipe in quick succession
    makes it use up to 98% processor power....
    
    >
    > Later,
    > Chris
    >
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